Iver3
L3Harris man-portable AUV; US Navy seabed surveillance, deployed at BALTOPS 2026.
The Iver3 is L3Harris OceanServer's man-portable autonomous underwater vehicle, one of more than 50 Iver systems in active US Navy service for seabed mapping and surveillance.
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Is the Iver3 the template for every NATO ally's future undersea surveillance fleet?
Timeline for Iver3
Mapped seabed, hunted mines and ran electronic surveillance off Liepaja
Autonomous Systems: Land & Sea: Undersea robots go core at BALTOPSBackground
The Iver3 is a compact autonomous underwater vehicle manufactured by L3Harris OceanServer, part of the L3Harris Technologies defence group. It is a single-person-portable system roughly 580 mm in diameter, capable of operating unattended for up to ten hours at depths of 100 to 200 metres and covering more than 20 km of survey lines on a single battery charge. The Iver3 carries a sensor package spanning bathymetry, side-scan sonar, magnetometer, water-quality sensors and cameras.
More than 50 Iver systems are in active use with the US Navy, making the platform a reference point for allied navies building their own autonomous mine-countermeasure and seabed-surveillance programmes. It sits within the wider L3Harris Iver Suite of AUVs, which ranges from the man-portable Iver3 up to larger systems, and L3Harris has been selected by the US Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit to supply AUVs for expeditionary undersea missions.
What is the Iver3 AUV and who makes it?
What was the Iver3 doing at BALTOPS 2026?
How many Iver AUVs does the US Navy use?
